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What, so you mean instead of the left end of the arena they should have built the stage at the right end of the arena? :dozey: Or the middle of the arena and run back and forth across the stage trying to keep the two sides from tuning out when their backs were turned.? (It's been done, lots. First concert I ever went to, actually. I don't like it.) Or maybe they should have built a stepped one on top of the seats at one end. (Complicated, dangerous, and still at one end.) Or maybe they should have just done away with the stage entirely and played in the crowd- oh wait, they did. It's called the C-stage. (And it's been done before.):dozey::dozey: I know, maybe they should have put shiny butterfly stickers on all their amps, so they looked different from U2's, and then they would be original. :dozey::dozey::dozey: Because an avant garde setlist full of b-sides and covers would go over ever so well with a radio-listening crowd. :thinking: And a million other shows before it. Were you around in the glam rock 70s? Between glam and hair metal, pretty much everything that could be done had been done by the end of the 70s or early 80s. At a glance, Zoo TV looks like a bunch of glam stuff (shiny pants!) paired up with Giant TVs for the MTV crowd of the time. Oh look- one of the glam icons is U2's (and Coldplay's) creative guru. Nothing new to see here people, move along. :rolleyes: ...BUT, to paraphrase what Matt Bellamy said once in an interview (don't remember which one, sorry) Everything you could do on a stage with a guitar has already been done. All that guitar god stuff is very old now. It's clichéd. They do it anyway in a very tongue-in-cheek way because it's fun and it works. I think the big problem with this type of thinking in music is that it makes the classic mistake of confusing innovation and invention. This attitude says that to be original (and apparently originality is nessesary to have "good" music or shows) you have to invent something new. Yet as a recent issue of Maclean's wrote: My actual point, U2 figured out how to do massive (but alienating) shows well. Coldplay figured out how to make huge shows feel as intimate as if they were playing in a tiny club. To innovate you need a template to start with. But kudos to Coldplay, that innovation was a pretty big (and needed) breakthrough, even if the invention-for-legitimacy crowd think any template makes them unoriginal. (Frankly, that crowd has been pissing me off for so long I shouldn't care any more.) I say originality is both invention (new out of the blue) and innovation (small positive adjustments).

Hmm... anyone have any suggestions for a banner artwork theme? I'm going to try to get something together in a couple of days once I'm done with my last midterm.

A Study in Pink, on PBS TONIGHT people! :dance:

It's almost 7am on Monday in NZ now, if I have it figured right. (International date line still messes with my head a little.) That means today is D-day. All the big meetings with the WB people are happening in the next 24 hours, supposedly. :uhoh: Goodness, I hope it stays in New Zealand. What a roller coaster these weeks have been- yay movie, boo blacklist, boo moving, yay Bilbo/Watson, ack meetings. :sleeping2:

Ok, I'm in.

There is a precedent for that. The legends of demons like the incubus and succubus are believed to have been started as a way to cover up abuse and incest. Little virgin girl gets knocked up by daddy in a culture that despises pregnancy out of wedlock, just blame it on the demons. Horrible things happen now, just blame it on the aliens. Sleep paralysis in particular- a natural occurrence where you wake up unable to move because the hormones that stop you from sleepwalking every night haven't worn off yet (as I understand it)- gets blamed on whatever the boogeyman of the moment is- demons in the medieval era, ghosts when ghost stories were popular, and now aliens because alien abduction stories are popular.

I think that the numerous discoveries of exoplanets point to the possibility of extra terrestrial life forms, but the distances on their own make any meaningful communication impossible. .... *points* [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn0bSd26U30]YouTube - Paul Trailer[/ame]

:vuvuzela: :vuvuzela: :vuvuzela: :vuvuzela: :vuvuzela: Loud enough yet?

4:25 and on, especially the very end... that's what I mean. :) :cry: *murp* [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf3Q6CrECgo]YouTube - David and Billie clips 3 David 's series 2 video diaries[/ame]

Because Billie Piper is really good at crying and people naturally mimic other people's expressions? Even I tear up a bit for that one and I don't cry for anything. It's not the writing (which is good) or the acting (which is great) it's just that she sets me off and then he makes it worse. Probably helped by the fact that they were actually crying between takes.

DT is way too tall to be any sort of hobbit. On the last movie, the perspective tricks they used to shrink the hobbits meant that they had to be less than 5'8". I think Dom was tallest at 5'7 1/2". DT is over 6'. Freeman works- according to imdb he's 5'7". Dwarves meanwhile have to be quite tall so that they can film them at the same time as the hobbits, since dwarves are slightly taller than hobbits. I think DT would probably be playing an elf of some sort (If there is any truth in the rumors.) Possibly Thranduil the Elven King? He has the right build for an elf. James Nesbit should be Thranduil imho- he'd look a lot like Legolas (his son) in a grey-blond wig, and he'd have the same sort of weird energy and look to him as Celeborn and Hugo Weaving's Elrond in the movies. The rumour however is that he's playing Bofur, one of the dwarves.

Hey, a decade I`m not completely rubbish at! :D Does Sigur Ros` Agaetis Byrjun count as a 90s or 00s album? In no particular order at the moment: Radiohead - OK Computer Radiohead - The Bends My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Oasis - What`s the Story Morning Glory Oasis - Definitely Maybe The Verve - Urban Hymns The Rankin Family - Fare Thee Well Love The Rankin Family - North Country Loreena McKennit - The Book of Secrets Our Lady Peace - Happiness... Is Not A Fish That You Can Catch Nirvana - Nevermind (Kind of hate it for what it did to the decade`s music :disappointed:) Moby - Play Massive Attack - Mezzanine DJ Shadow - Entroducing Fatboy Slim - Better Living Though Chemistry Beck - Odelay Blur - Blur The Prodigy - Fat of the Land The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers - Surrender Travis - The Man Who Muse - Showbiz Jeff Buckley - Grace Hmm... needs more Blur. Should have some Smashing Pumpkins, but I can`t stand them. Can`t leave the Rankin Family out of it- those were probably two of the most important albums of my life.

Ok, that should be all the list links updated on the first page. As usual, I compile the master list from those links so if I missed you or your link is wrong, PLEASE TELL ME!

According to Simon Pegg, Martin Freeman is still trying to figure out how to sign on to play Bilbo while working around the Sherlock filming schedule. I think he'd make a great Bilbo- he's the right age, and he's very hobbity: Plus he moments where he sure could pass for a young Ian Holm...

The Hobbit to begin filming in February next year Filming on The Hobbit is set to begin in February after it was finally given the go-ahead by film studio bosses. Warner Bros also announced that Peter Jackson, who directed the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy, would helm the two-part prequel. The films, based on JRR Tolkien's book, had been delayed for months due to MGM Studios' - which owns half the project - ongoing financial woes. No release dates for the movies have been given. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11560411

*Dusts off thread* *sneezes* Ah, lets try that again... Hobbit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woohoo! :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:

Ah, yep... behind on updating that. I'll get to it today. :embarrassed:

:laugh3: That's a very confusing sentence. *checks* According to the BBC and a couple of other sources, it was released in 2009. :( Sorry.

My last name is boring. So if I got married, yeah I probably would take his last name, just so I didn't have to be a ____ anymore. Not that I'll ever stop being a ____, our peculiar family genes are too dominant to escape them. :tongue:

Grooveshark meanwhile is 100% web-based ad supported streaming, no downloading anything. So it's worth a try.

You're a Dalek. :blank:

Wahoo, just saw that they're all out! :dance: :dance: :dance: The whole globe has been hoping and praying for them. It's good that we got some good news for once.

Some historian. No wait. That would be someone making up the past tomorrow.

You guys hear that the opening two-parter next spring is being filmed in Utah? Apparently it's the first time a Who episode has had more than a couple of second-unit scenes filmed in America. BBC America is picking up the transport tab, apparently. Also, can't wait for Neil Gaiman's ep. It's officially ep 3 now. :cool: :dance:

Ah, I thought that was the definition of a lullaby as opposed to a more generic folk song- that rocking motion is built in. Meanwhile, until I get another burst of inspiration, the lyrics might take a while.... :blank: